HeinOnline

HEINonline allows access to the Law Journal Library collection (academic legal
periodicals), as well as the Federal Register
Library. Over 370 plus journals are indexed and all documents are provided
online in a .pdf format. The coverage dates are from pre-1981 until the present
time. Most Journals are covered from their inception.

There are many ways to search HEINonline. The left hand links allow searching
by: Journal Title, Article Author, Article Title, Author & Title, and Full
Text Search. From the right hand side of the screen users can Browse Journals.

Let's try a Full Text Search for this lesson.

Click on Full Text Search
on the left hand menu from the opening screen.

Full Text Search selected from the left hand side of GPO.

The left hand side of the screen changes after selecting Full Text Search.

enter the search term(s) in the search box provided

enter desired dates

choose all journals or select a journal to search

sort final results to display by date or by title of journal

click search

HEINonline
Full Text Search option.

To do a word search enter one or more words in the search field without
quotation marks. You can control whether the search is performed for all of
the words or any of the words by checking the box as in the below image from
the Full Text Search screen.

If you check this box, your word search will find only those pages in the collection
that contain all of the words in the search argument.

The results display on the right hand side of the screen. This search was for
"violent crimes" and "florida". The number of times the keywords were found
are listed followed by the estimated search time. The results are then listed.
To open a particular volume click on the blue underlined link.

Search
Results in HEINonline.

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After the Search Results display, and a link for an individual document is clicked
on the document will open in an HTML format.